M R. DISRAELI has been playing a curious game with regard to Mr. Fawcett's clause on the Corrupt Practices' Bill throwing the cost of hustings, polling-booths, and other...

to attend ; but on the following day he received an address from the Corporation of Romsey, and made a speech, in which he eulogized Lord Palmerston's preference of public duty...

Convention of American Democrats is a platform of State sovereignty as well as of repudiation. Upon this latter point the Republicans themselves seem shaky. A resolution...

Tues- day in the evening to discuss the Metropolitan Cattle Markets' Bill, Mr. Ayrton at once called attention to the empty state of the House. Being a resumed sitting,—the...

Lord Advocate first gave notice of his intention to extend Mr. Fawcett's new proviso to Scotland, which threw everybody off their guard, and only late on Tuesday night did the...

on Saturday. Sir F. Goldsmid proposed that when a victorious candidate was unseated for bribery, his non-bribing competitor, if supported by a third of the electorate, should...

ston on Tuesday,—namely, a statue in bronze, by Noble, situate in the market-place, and said to be admirable, and a stained-glass window in the Abbey representing various...

for a copy of the Coronation Oath, and made one of his strange speeches, in which he laid it down as absolute truth that the Opposition had taken up the disestablishment of the...

repu- tation, but his hostile criticisms on the poem attributed by Mr. Henry Morley to Milton do not seem to be even smart. The most substantial of his objections, that "thy my...

constituents in an address as discreditable to our system of representation as it is creditable to himself personally. A man of good family, able, and a fair speaker, Mr....

locked up for a fortnight by the Dunstable police and heavily mulcted, whose story we mentioned last week, has been elucidated this week by letters from the superintendent of...

kicked. He took offence the other day at some temperate criticisms of the Daily News, and wrote the editor a letter declining to give his reporter a place at the banquet to Lord...

discussion, but little real opposition. It is clear that a great majority of the House is in favour of the measure, and the only real objection is the one raised by Mr. Goschen,...

Cassagnac, publishes a document received by post, and supposed to emanate from " the Revolutionary Commune of Paris." It declares that " France is exhausted ; to the Coup d'Etat...

in England, but his Grace certainly does write almost as funny a style as if he were still half Dutch. His Grace's agent let his Grace's tenants know the other day that his...

of July 16, between some Birmingham brasafounders and the Home Office, on the question of some special relaxations of the Factory Acts' Extension Act, specially provided for in...

on Wednesday, when it was stated that Mr. Albert Grant, the governor, had resigned, and Mr. Mowatt, as chairman of the Board, made an unpleasantly frank speech. He said the...

not been, to say, extensive, prices generally have been well supported. Consols for money have been done at 941, ; ditto for account, 944, 4. Reduced and New Three per Cents.,...

any other source, that petroleum has been discovered in county Monaghan. If this is correct, Ireland possesses a supply of fuel which may almost compensate for her want of coal,...

report, which contains one suggestion of importance. The general result, that the Malt Tax ought to be repealed, if any other equally good source of revenue could be discovered,...

Chamber of Deputies, has been appointed Minister of the Interior, the only instance, if we recollect aright, in this century, of a high ecclesiastic becoming, out of Spain, a...

the state of affairs in Abyssinia after the departure of the British. Wagehum Gobayze, who has occupied Debra Tabor, now claims the supreme authority, and is menacing Kassai,...

has reissued the old laws against the conversion of Japanese to Chris- tianity. This means, we presume, that he has threatened all converts with death, a penalty actually...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, July 17. Friday, July 24. ... 761 ... 77 ... 881 83 ... 614 It as ... 111 1 911 22 ... 671 G7 ... 061 641 Yesterday and on Friday...

THE THREE MONUMENTS TO LORD P ALMERSTON. A STATUE is a fitting memorial of any man, and of no man a more fitting memorial than of the shrewd old statesman whose statue was...

I appears to be believed in Paris that the French General 1 Elections will, like our own, take place in November next. We say "it appears," because the Imperial Government,...

minds not a little humiliating in the discussion raised on Friday week by Sir William Hutt about the interference of Peers in elections. It suggests that there are still many...

t STERIAL dodges—a journalist, we suppose, may use his word, though, according to a recent decision of Mr. Speaker, a Member of Parliament may not—have become under the...

W E never remember to have read American documents which puzzled us so entirely as the Democratic " plat- form," and the report of the Meeting by which that platform was...

T HE Finsbury Union appears to be an association,—as yet in some degree endeavouring after secrecy,—which is zealous to get up a Protestant cry, on the basis whereof Finsbury...

T HE heat is beginning to have a moral interest. Apart from the interesting stories we hear of farmers who have usually supplied two hundredweight of butter per week being only...

T HERE was sense of a kind in the rather naive suggestions about teaching French at Eton which Lord Malmesbury on Monday offered to the Peers. If the only object of " learn- ing...

LXXII.—CENTRAL ENGLAND:—NORTHAMPTONSEIRE AND WAR- WICKSHIRE :—KELTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS. O F the Keltic tribes who peopled Britain at the time of the Roman Invasion,...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The usual tendency of such discussions as this one is towards personalities. I am unwilling it should be so now. I hesitate much in troubling you with any...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I venture to contribute to the controversy on this sub- ject an anecdote which I have frequently heard narrated in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—While thanking you for the elevated view which you have long and consistently maintained of the position of women in married life, a...

Sre.,—I am sorry you did not insert my letter, written about a fortnight ago. My object was to sift by fair argument the question of the disestablishment of the Church in...

Sin,—Your paper (at least so far as I understand it) has recently condemned the Clergy of the Established Church for bigotry and intolerance. Is not this condemnation rather too...

Vides al) altd stet nice candidum.—Holuee, I., 0. Soracth and the bending woods Stand one gigantic pile of snow, Gleaming and pure ; nor longer flow, Bound by keen frost, the...

A HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY.* To produce a fine selection of English poetry is perhaps one of the most difficult of editorial labours. The mine from whence this wealth...

to those who fancy that the Viceroy gives orders and that other people obey them, is really a most complicated and delicate affair, almost as complicated and delicate as that of...

Collins'a reputa- tion as a novelist. We are no especial admirers of the department of art to which he has devoted himself, any more than we are of double acrostics, or...

[SECOND NOTICE.] IN our last notice we omitted the chapters on volcanic agency in Vol. I., stating that the subject would be noticed in connection with Mount Etna. The main...

TuE conversations which compose this book are so eminently dramatic, that we almost fear their moral will be lost in admiration of their art. Readers will rather dwell on the...

Ara . one who wishes clearly to understand the nature and quality of the fibre of which much, nay, the greater part of Scotch character is formed, could scarcely do better than...

Roes Johnson. (Bentley).—The reader should be told that the " Argentine Alps" are the highlands of La Plata or the Argentine States. Mr. Johnson, writes pleasantly and sensibly...

Dawson, Jun. (Hotten.)—We suppose that Mr. Dawson, when he says. in his preface that "he is a labourer on a farm," is using a certain latitude of expression. We commonly...

by the Author of the Gentle Life. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The Author of the Gentle Life is an inveterate proser, who must be by this time insensible to all critical correction. He...

0- Newby.)—A slight, pleasantly written story, chiefly illustrative of the bitters and sweets of authorship, and of the comparative value of the "two lives" of literature and...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—The critics, we suppose, are for the most part University men, and the public is pleased to take a great interest at present in University matters. It is...

Faith and Works. By J. O'Connor, B.A. (Saunders and Otley.)— Mr. O'Connor puts together under this title six essays which speak well, on the whole, for his ability and...

novel is reprinted from Fraser's Magazine. It barely comas up, we think, to the level of the tales which we have b ee n accustomed to see there. $30 though we cannot say either...